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Replication files and code for:

Cheng, Chao-Yo. 2021. "Poverty Alleviation and State Building in Peripheral Areas: Evidence from
China." Japanese Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.

16 September 2021

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All tables and figures in the paper and appendix can be generated by the included datasets and R 
files. Tables and Figures start with the prefix "A" can be found in the appendix.

01 Descriptives.R

	This .R file generates tables and figures of descriptive/summary statistics.

		- Figure 1 -- using "PovertyJJPS_Map.RData"
		- Figure 2 -- using "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData"
		- Figure 3 -- using "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData"
		- Tables A1 and A2 -- using "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData"

02a CBPS Main.R
02b CBPS Robust.R
02c CBPS Extended.R

	These three .R files use "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData" to generate the results of all CBPS analysis.

		- Figures 4 (02a CBPS Main.R)
		- Figures A1-A4 (02a CBPS Main.R)
		- Tables A3-A7 (02a CBPS Main.R)
		- Tables A8-A14 (02b CBPS Robust.R)
		- Figure 5 (02c CBPS Extended.R)

03 Alternatives.R

	This .R file generates the results of alternative identification and estimation strategies.

		- Tables A15 and A16 -- using "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData".
		- Table A17 -- using "PovertyJJPS_IV.RData".

04 Additional.R

	This .R file uses "PovertyJJPS_Final.RData" to generate the results of the additional analysis 
	that explores the correlation between two poverty alleviation transfers.

		- Table 1
		- Figure 6
		- Table A18

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Correspondence should be sent to Chao-Yo Cheng (c.cheng23[at]lse.ac.uk).

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